Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

police station

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.84 in modern English

Syllables: po-lice s-ta-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

Example Sentences

"When the ballots were opened on 19 November, Hsu Hsin-liang’s supporters at a polling station in Chungli City suspected fraud. As the crowd swelled to approximately a thousand, rioting erupted. One protester was killed and the Chungli police station was burned."
"In trying to stop him from exploiting more children, I was ensuring my parents and my siblings would be ostracised. She begged me not to go to the police station."

Inflected Forms

police stations (plural)

Synonyms

cophouse cop shop kotwali Irish clubhouse police headquarters station house

Questions

What does police station mean?: A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

How to pronounce police station

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “police station”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “police station”.
Repeat and practice — Say “police station” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.